6/31 727) was equally applied to a purse of 125 pieces of silver, and to a small copper coin of the value of 1/2625 part of that purse. In the former sense, the 25,000 folles would be equal to 150,000 L.; in the latter, to five or six ponuds sterling The one appears extravagant, the other is ridiculous. There must have existed some third and middle value, which is here understood; but ambiguity is an excusable fault in the language of laws.] [Footnote 28: Nicopolis...... in Actiaco littore sita possessioris vestra nunc pars vel maxima est.Jerom.in Praefat.Comment. ad Epistol. |